Why Is Stanford Not in And Just Like That Season 2? A Special Tribute In Ep 1

Missing him. If you love Sex and the City and its reboot series And Just Like That, you might find a notable star missing on screen. Many SATC fans are wondering: Why is Stanford not in And Just Like That season 2? 

Willie Garson, who played Carrie’s BFF Stanford Blatch, starred in 27 episodes of Sex and the City. The iconic HBO show ran for six seasons from 1998 to 2004. The show was based on Candace Bushnell’s 1997 book of the same title  and followed four women in their 30s and 40s—Carrie Bradshaw (Sarah Jessica Parker), Samantha Jones (Kim Cattrall), Miranda Hobbes (Cynthia Nixon) and Charlotte York (Kristin Davis)—and their sex lives in New York City.

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The actor starred as Stanford for all six seasons of Sex and the City and including both spin off movies Sex and the City: The Movie saw Stanford fall in love with Anthony Marantino (Mario Cantone), a wedding planner and Charlotte’s best friend, who was his frenemy in Sex and the City. Sex and the City 2 saw Stanford and Mario marry in a wedding officiated by Liza Minelli. In January 2021, HBO announced that a Sex and the City reboot,  titled And Just Like That, was in the works for HBO Max. The reboot sees the return of each of the main cast members—except Cattrall, who has retired from the role of Samantha. Among the cast members who returned was Garson, who filmed three episodes of And Just Like That before his death on September 21, 2021, He was 57 years old.

So what happened to Stanford and why isn’t he in And Just Like That season 2? Read more to find out.

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